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Running, faster and faster, but there is no where to go. Kaori awoke from a nightmare she's had every night for as long as she could remember. Someone was watching, but she didn't know who it was. She almost saw him this time.. Some how she woke up just in time.
Her eyes started to adjust to the darkness. A figure appeared at the end of her bed. The pressure of a scream reached the back of her throat. But, a hand covered her mouth before it reached her lips.
"Shhh. It's only me, Kaori." It's only Yusuke, she breathed. "Did you have the dream again?"
"Yes.." Kaori cried. Yusuke put his arm around her shoulders.
"Nothing will get you. I promise." But nothing was going to hurt her. She had to save this boy.
Kaori lives with her older brother Yusuke, and their mother Atsuko. Yusuke was just brought back from the dead by Koenma. But, what Yusuke doesn't know, is that Kaori knows more about the Spirit World than he does.
When Kaori was little, she often made trips to the Spirit Realm. Back when she made the trips, she had no idea that she was switching realms. The process of leaving the Human World came natural to Kaori. She would just close her eyes, walk through a door, and come out standing next to her friend, Yuki. She was an ice apparition. The two were inseparable. Yuki's mother soon explained that Yuki was different. She also told Kaori that she was switching realms, and that she was probably the only human able to do it.
Every night, when Kaori returned home, she would tell Yusuke and her mother about her day with Yuki. They both brushed it off, as though Yuki were just an imaginary friend. As Kaori got older, Atsuko would talk to Kaori about giving up on the imaginary friend thing, but how could someone leave a friend because no one believed in her. Kaori stopped telling her family of the time she would spend with Yuki, but she never stopped seeing her.
As time wore on, and Kaori had to go to school, she saw Yuki less, and less. Kaori promised Yuki that every Saturday, she would go to see her, and they would spend the day together.
One Saturday, as the friends took a walk, a shadow kept appearing in the trees. It was not a shape a tree could make, it must be a human. Yuki picked up her pace, and Kaori fallowed. But, no matter what they did, they shadow kept up with their pace. That's when Yuki stopped. She turned to the figure fallowing them, and shouted, "Leave us alone! We didn't do anything wrong!" Kaori grabbed Yuki's hand to calm her down. But, Yuki ran back to the small cottage she lived in. As the house came into view, Kaori tripped on a root, she hit her head, causing her to black out.
When Kaori came to, she was laying in Yuki's bed.
"What happened?" Kaori asked.
"I'm not sure…" Yuki answered, "You tripped on a root. I carried you back to the house. What ever was chasing us left us alone while I got you to safety."
Kaori went home after that. She dreamt about that day every night after. She feared the Flying Shadow would be in pain forever.
Yusuke kept his arm around Kaori until her breathing became regular again. When he thought Kaori was all right, he went back to his room. But, there was no way Kaori was going back to sleep. She feared the Shadow too much. Taking her blanket, she made her way to the small living room. She made a small bed from her large blanket, and fell asleep there.
Yusuke and Atsuko let Kaori sleep in the next morning. They didn't want her to make herself sick again over the nightmare. Yusuke left to be with Keiko, and Atsuko went to the bar. When Kaori knew they wouldn't be back, she crawled out of bed, and made herself breakfast.
I need out of the house. She thought. Dressing as quickly as possible, Kaori was out of the door in ten minutes. Where should I go today? A voice in the back of her mind said to visit Yuki, but Kaori knew that wouldn't help make her nightmares go away.
She settled with going to school. I wonder if Yusuke went to school today, Kaori thought. That question was answered once she got into hearing range of the school.
"Yusuke Urameshi, report to Mr. Takanaka's office!"
"Figures…" Kaori muttered to herself. She walked to her class, trying with her whole being to forget her dream. The teacher drowned on and on, and Kaori tried to keep up, but dream kept drawling her thoughts away.
Just when Kaori thought she would break, she felt some one from the Spirit World.
"Sensei? May I use the restroom?" She asked. The teacher nodded, and Kaori ran from the room. She zeroed in on the energy. But when she arrived at the spot, it was only Yusuke and two teachers, Iwamoto and Takanaka.
"Yusuke! You didn't hit a teacher did you?"
"Kaori, you sound just like Keiko." Yusuke said.
"You didn't answer."
"Umm…" He wouldn't answer.
"Well, if you won't answer that, did you feel some one from the Spirit World?"
"What? I don't know what you're talking about."
"Yes you do. I know what happened when you died, Yusuke. I know you went to the Spirit World." Kaori shouted. "Do not lie to me, I can tell when you do."
"I, um… I…" Just when Kaori thought Yusuke wouldn't tell her what was going on, he looks her straight in the face. "Yuki is real, isn't she?"
"What? Yes, she is. Now, tell me what happened!" Kaori said, glairing at her older brother.
"Um…. I have to take a vacation."
"Fine don't tell me. But I will find out. You can bet on it." And with that, Kaori left.
Instead of going back to her class, Kaori waited for her brother in the shadows. Yusuke waited until the hallway was cleared, he opened the window, and jumped out. Kaori fallowed. Yusuke weaved street to street, heading toward home. Where the hell is he going? Kaori thought. Her question was answered when they reached their front door. Yusuke didn't leave the house for the rest of the day. Maybe I imagined the Spirit World person…